Rob Pincus demonstrates how to use a Figure-8 drill to practice shooting in a 360-degree environment without leaving a square range with a safe designated shooting area. A Personal Defense Network (PDN) original video.
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Reload Bolt Lock M4
Rob Pincus reviews the key components to a efficient reload from bolt-lock with an AR type defensive rifle. Keeping the rifle in the ready position means that it will be easier to get the gun back into a shooting position, if necessary, when your reload is complete.
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Problem Solving on the Range: Refining Shooting Position
Rob Pincus and Deryck Poole work with a student on the range to refine his shooting position. Whenever you are training for defensive shooting, you should try to maintain a natural and neutral stance with your feet about equidistant from the target and your weight forward. Related videos: Problem Solving on the Range: Realistic Engagement…
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Recruiting Firearm Instructors for Your Range
Rob Pincus is with Chuck Usina at the Ancient City Shooting Range in St. Augustine, Florida to talk about how range owners can find good firearm instructors to teach courses. Chuck advises doing research on what the firearm instructors teach, checking to make sure they have positive feedback, and actually talking to former students. Don’t…
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Interconnectedness of Defensive Firearm Training
Student alert! If your defensive firearms instructor is not giving you an integrated system of firearm manipulation techniques but rather a set of unconnected techniques that don't integrate well together, don't reinforce each other, and don't contribute to your efficiency by being consistent with one another, you need to challenge those techniques.
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wonder if the figure 8 could be done with multiple targets at various side arm distances and multiple barrels (space permitting… Like outdoors) for more variation.
Thank you, great drill
The drill shown in this video is a variation of Moore System created by Sérgio Colò Moore (Italian partisan in WW2 and former Carabinieri) in Brazil. But, in the Moore system, the targets are in the front of 8-figure, not sideways. When running the circle nearer the target, one-hand instinctive shooting was used, and two-handed grip, aimed fire, in the farthest circle.